Weekend Editor
Wes Davis holds down The Verge on weekends, reporting on everything tech and entertainment under the sun. He loves fixing what is (and ain’t) broke with gadgetry and smart home tech, and came to The Verge from the freelance Wi-Fi router review world.
When he’s not writing tech news, Wes is cycling (transportation, not racing), gaming, or recording music nobody should listen to. You can find him most places under the username "blunderchief."
One local found that the Whataburger app’s location map, which uses color to show if a store is open or closed, was surprisingly useful for tracking outages in Houston, where the state’s fragile energy grid succumbed to the category 1 storm and left millions without power.
Helpful, since at least one local energy provider’s outage map wasn’t functioning, as Austin-American Statesman writes.
The Galaxy Ring, Galaxy Watch 7 and Ultra, Z Fold 6 and Z Flip 6, and Galaxy Buds 3 and 3 Pro each made appearances at Galaxy Unpacked and are available starting on July 24th.
We’ve prepared a 12-minute supercut of the event for you, in case you missed the livestream.
Samsung Galaxy Unpacked: everything announced at the July 2024 event
Samsung launched the Galaxy Ring, a Galaxy Watch Ultra, new Z Fold and Z Flip phones, and more.
Setting aside their Apple-ness and the Cybertruck-like angles, what do we think? Here’s a gallery of new Galaxy Buds images from Galaxy Unpacked.
For more on what they’re like, check out Chris Welch’s hands-on.
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Samsung is expanding its feature that translates phone calls in real time to cover 16 languages in July and 20 languages by the end of the year.
Here’s a gallery of the Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra’s detail shots. That strap connection looks pretty familiar!
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